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| |alias = Mr Seyton
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| |image = Shakespeare A History of Humankind.jpg
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| |species = Human
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| |job = Poet
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| |job2 = Playwright
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| |origin = [[Stratford-upon-Avon]]
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| |child = Susan (The Kingmaker){{!}}Susanna
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| |child2 = Judith (The Kingmaker){{!}}Judith
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| |child3 = Hamnet
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| |spouse = Anne Hathaway
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| |first mention = City of the Daleks (comic story)
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| |first = The Chase (TV story)
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| |appearances = [[William Shakespeare - list of appearances|'''''see list''''']]
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| |actor = Dean Lennox Kelly
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| |other actor = Hugh Walters
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| |other voice actor = [[Jem Bassett]], [[Michael Fenton-Stevens]], [[Stephen Beckett]]
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| |clip = Expelliarmus! William Shakespeare Vs The Carrionites - Doctor Who - The Shakespeare Code - BBC
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| {{William Shakespeare}}
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| '''William Shakespeare''', also known as '''William Shackspur''', '''William Shaxsberd''', and '''William Shaxberd''', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Apocrypha Bipedium (short story)|Apocrypha Bipedium]]'') was widely considered to be the greatest [[poet]] and [[playwright]] in the [[history]] of [[England]] and one of the greatest in [[human]] history. The [[Tenth Doctor]] considered him the most "human" human that ever lived. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Shakespeare Code (TV story)|The Shakespeare Code]]'')
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| Many sources depicted Shakespeare as a real individual who shared interactions with [[the Doctor]] on multiple occasions, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Time of the Daleks (audio story)|The Time of the Daleks]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[A Groatsworth of Wit (comic story)|A Groatsworth of Wit]]'') as [[history]] recorded, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse]]'') but others claimed that Shakespeare was "no more than a [[rumour]]" and that "no real empirical evidence of anyone of that name in courtly circles" existed, with one stating it was an [[alias]] of [[Christopher Marlowe]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[All Done with Mirrors (short story)|All Done with Mirrors]]'') Additionally, sources that agreed on Shakespeare's existence conflicted over the circumstances of his demise. One claimed that he died in [[April]] [[1616]] after being [[poison]]ed on the orders of [[Walter Raleigh]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Empire of Glass (novel)|The Empire of Glass]]'') but another depicted him as taking the place of the doomed [[King]] [[Richard III of England|Richard III]] at the [[Battle of Bosworth]], with the real Richard taking Shakespeare's place in history in [[1597]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Kingmaker (audio story)|The Kingmaker]]'')
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| In a [[20th century]] textbook owned by the [[Coal Hill library]], it was acknowledged that for all his [[play]]s, "little" was known about the man himself. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A History of Humankind (novel)|A History of Humankind]]'') By [[1963]], [[Literature|literary]] [[scholar]]s had argued about whether Shakespeare had really written his own works for [[Century|centuries]]. History [[teacher]] [[Barbara Wright]] considered [[Francis Bacon]] such a credible candidate for the true [[author]] that she attempted to use the [[Time-Space Visualiser]] to find out for certain. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Chase (novelisation)|The Chase]]'') Indeed, [[Iris Wildthyme]] once concurred with this [[theory]], having been told by Will himself that he and Bacon had an "arrangement". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Minions of the Moon (short story)|Minions of the Moon]]'') Of Shakespeare's contemporaries, [[Thomas Middleton]] was another possibility, with some evidence existing that ''[[Macbeth]]'' contained "interpolations" drawn from Middleton's work. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The True Tragedy of Macbeth (short story)|The True Tragedy of Macbeth]]'')
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| The true authorship of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets was still considered an "ancient mystery" in the [[space]]-faring age of the [[25th century]] with the list of potential candidates having been expanded to include [[extra-terrestrial]]s. According to one account, all of his work had in fact been written by the [[Golden Emperor|Dalek Emperor]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (comic story)|City of the Daleks]]'') Other accounts showed multiple [[incarnation]]s of the Doctor helping with the authorship of his works, particularly with ''[[Hamlet]]'', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Stranger, The Writer, His Wife and the Mixed Metaphor (short story)|The Stranger, The Writer, His Wife and the Mixed Metaphor]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[City of Death (TV story)|City of Death]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Foe from the Future (audio story)|The Foe from the Future]]'') with yet more accounts indicating that Shakespeare was [[paradox]]ically given access to some or all of his works by the Doctor. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[All Done with Mirrors (short story)|All Done with Mirrors]]'', ''[[Apocrypha Bipedium (short story)|Apocrypha Bipedium]]'', ''[[The Tempest - A Work in Progress (short story)|The Tempest - A Work in Progress]]'')
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| == Biography ==
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| === Early life ===
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| Shakespeare was born in [[1564]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') in [[Stratford-upon-Avon]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A History of Humankind (novel)|A History of Humankind]]'')
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| The [[Fourth Doctor]] claimed that Shakespeare as a boy was "very taciturn" and that he said to him, "There's no point in talking if you've got nothing to say". ([[TV]]: ''[[City of Death (TV story)|City of Death]]'')
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| The [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Charlotte Pollard|Charley Pollard]] met a young Will Shakespeare who had been taken out of his rightful time ([[1572]]) by [[Viola Learman]] and brought to [[New Britain]] in the early 21st century. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Time of the Daleks (audio story)|The Time of the Daleks]]'') The three of them briefly ended up in [[Asia Minor]], where they encountered the Doctor's previous companion, [[Vicki Pallister|Vicki]], calling herself Cressida, and her husband [[Troilus]]. The Doctor was afraid that Will would learn too much about his future play, ''[[Troilus and Cressida]]'', but learned that Shakespeare had not invented the story. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Apocrypha Bipedium (short story)|Apocrypha Bipedium]]'') The Doctor eventually dropped Shakespeare off in [[Warwick]] in his own time period. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Foreshadowing (audio story)|Foreshadowing]]'')
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| Shakespeare was an uneducated rural actor, later turned playwright. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[A Groatsworth of Wit (comic story)|A Groatsworth of Wit]]'') Shakespeare married [[Anne Hathaway]] in [[1582]] and they went on to have three children; [[Susan (The Kingmaker)|Susanna]] was born shortly after they married, with twins [[Judith (The Kingmaker)|Judith]] and [[Hamnet]] born in [[1585]]. Some time after 1585, he moved to [[London]] where he started his career as an actor, poet and playwright. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A History of Humankind (novel)|A History of Humankind]]'')
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| [[File:WS3.jpg|thumb|Shakespeare in [[1592]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[A Groatsworth of Wit (comic story)|A Groatsworth of Wit]]'')]]
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| Most of his works dated from the period between [[1589]] and [[1613]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A History of Humankind (novel)|A History of Humankind]]'')
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| In [[1592]], the [[Ninth Doctor]] and [[Rose Tyler]] encountered an older Shakespeare, where he was to perform the lead part of his play ''[[Richard III (play)|Richard III]]'' at [[The Rose]] theatre. At the Doctor's request, Rose agreed to distract Shakespeare from the stage "with a hey nonny nonny" in an attempt to stop [[Robert Greene]] from murdering him. He dismissed an attempt by [[Shadey]]s to destroy the Earth as a trick-show, and did not let it interfere with his future career. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[A Groatsworth of Wit (comic story)|A Groatsworth of Wit]]'')
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| === The "death" of Christopher Marlowe ===
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| [[File:Christopher Marlowe Point of Entry.jpg|thumb|left|[[Christopher Marlowe]] in [[1590]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Point of Entry (audio story)|Point of Entry]]'')]]
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| One account stated that Shakespeare was another name for [[playwright]] [[Christopher Marlowe]]. He observed that his "true name denote[d] a celebration of [[savage]]ry, of the [[music]] of [[power]], the [[beauty]] of [[war]] and conflict, the lexicon of [[blood]] and [[death]]" whilst his other name also did this but with lighter expression and more enamoured establishment.
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| Although [[history]] recorded that Marlowe [[Death|died]] on [[30 May]] [[1593]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[All Done with Mirrors (short story)|All Done with Mirrors]]'') in a tavern in [[Deptford]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Master Faustus (short story)|Master Faustus]]'', ''[[Raleigh Dreaming (short story)|Raleigh Dreaming]]'') this account stated that the [[Fourth Doctor]] posed as Marlowe to fake his death which allowed Marlowe to permanently become Shakespeare. The Doctor gave Marlowe his copy of the ''[[Complete Works of Shakespeare]]'' as a parting gift and told him to only use it "if he really [got] stuck". The Doctor told [[Sarah Jane Smith]] that as long as Marlowe kept a low profile nobody would find out and the [[secret]] would die with him in about twenty-three [[year]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[All Done with Mirrors (short story)|All Done with Mirrors]]'')
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| The [[Shakespeare Notebooks]], a collection of works supposedly written by Shakespeare which [[The Shakespeare Notebooks|an academic publication]] invited the reader "to determine whether you believe the Shakespeare Notebooks are indeed genuine, or an elaborate [[hoax]]" for themselves, held a different account of Marlowe's death. This account held that it was {{Ainley}} who tried to prevent Marlowe's death by taking him away from Deptford shortly before he was scheduled to die, with Marlowe travelling with the Master for some time before accepting fate and returning to Deptford to be [[Stabbing|stabbed]] to death by [[Dullberry]] and [[Dobbin]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Master Faustus (short story)|Master Faustus]]'') Another account held that Marlowe was stabbed to death by the [[Time Agent]] [[John Hart (Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang)|John Hart]] after he had [[sex]] with him alongside [[Jack Harkness]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Death of Captain Jack (audio story)|The Death of Captain Jack]]'')
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| According to a second account which explicitly separated Marlowe and Shakespeare, Marlowe had actually travelled to the [[colony]] of [[Roanoke]] in the future [[United States]] to [[spy]] on [[Sir]] [[Walter Raleigh]]. He actually died in [[1609]] as a result of a [[duel]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Empire of Glass (novel)|The Empire of Glass]]'') Other accounts depicted both Shakespeare and Marlowe as having been [[Resurrection|resurrected]] in the [[City of the Saved]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'', ''[[Unification Theory (short story)|Unification Theory]]'')
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| === The Battle of Bosworth ===
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| According to one account, in [[1597]], the [[Fifth Doctor]] shared a drink with Shakespeare. He later stowed away in [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] and began to attempt to influence the reign of King [[Richard III of England]] to more closely resemble the account in his play ''[[Richard III (play)|Richard III]]''. Over the course of the adventure, Shakespeare's [[arm]] was broken by [[Erimem]] and he was further injured by a [[robot]] who was sent by publishers from the [[64th century]] to get the Doctor to finish his ''[[Doctor Who Discovers]]'' book. Finding himself in the TARDIS, Shakespeare threatened to detonate a [[Sontaran]] [[grenade]] unless the Doctor returned him to [[1485]] to pick up [[Edward IV of England|Edward IV]]'s daughters, [[Susan (The Kingmaker)|Susan]] and [[Judith (The Kingmaker)|Judith]]. Returning to 1485 during the [[Battle of Bosworth]], which history recorded as Richard's final defeat, with his injured arm and limp, Shakespeare matched the stereotypical description of King Richard, and was killed by Richard's enemies in his place at the battle. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Kingmaker (audio story)|The Kingmaker]]'')
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| [[File:10DY1 15 A Horse a Horse King Unicorn.jpg|thumb|right|The King is saved. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[A Rose by Any Other Name (comic story)|A Rose by Any other Name]]'')]]
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| According to another account, the King at Bosworth begun quoting Shakespeare's ''Richard III'' towards the end of the battle and was crying out "''My [[horse]]! My horse! My [[kingdom]] for a''" until a [[unicorn]] materialised in front of him, saving his life. This event was caused by the meddling of [[Rose (A Rose by Any Other Name)|Rose]], the [[Tenth Doctor]]'s [[cat]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[A Rose by Any Other Name (comic story)|A Rose by Any Other Name]]'')
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| Meanwhile, Richard took Shakespeare's place in [[1597]] and was joined by Judith and Susan who posed as his [[daughter]]s, having been brought forward in time by the Doctor. Before leaving, the Doctor recommended that Richard contact [[Francis Bacon]] for writing tips. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Kingmaker (audio story)|The Kingmaker]]'')
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| [[Henry Tudor]] succeeded Richard as [[King of England]], beginning the [[Tudor]] dynasty, and later [[Marriage|married]] [[Elizabeth of York]] to unite the [[war]]ring families in the aftermath of the [[Wars of the Roses]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo (TV story)|The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo]]'') By [[2019]], a body believed to be Richard's had been found in a [[car park]] in [[Leicester]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Resolution (TV story)|Resolution]]'')
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| === Later life ===
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| [[File:Shakespeare main.jpg|thumb|Shakespeare in [[1599]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Shakespeare Code (TV story)|The Shakespeare Code]]'')]]
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| In [[1599]], the [[Tenth Doctor]] encountered Shakespeare when the [[witch]]-like [[Carrionite]]s wanted the wordsmith to complete the lost play ''[[Love's Labour's Won]]'' to free the rest of their kind. With the help of the Doctor and [[Martha Jones]], the three Carrionites and their sisters were banished back into the [[Deep Darkness]]. However, the play was banished along with the Carrionites. During this encounter, Shakespeare developed an attraction to the Doctor and Martha, whom he addressed as his "Dark Lady". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Shakespeare Code (TV story)|The Shakespeare Code]]'')
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| [[File:ShakespeareWilliam-Chase.jpg|thumb|left|Shakespeare is inspired. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Chase (TV story)|The Chase]]'')]]
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| Via the [[Time-Space Visualiser]], the [[First Doctor]] and his companions watched William Shakespeare in conversation with Queen [[Elizabeth I]] about ''[[Hamlet]]''. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Chase (TV story)|The Chase]]'') The First Doctor collaborated with Shakespeare between drafts one and two of ''Hamlet''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Byzantium! (novel)|Byzantium!]]'') The Fourth Doctor claimed that he helped Shakespeare transcribe ''[[Hamlet]]'' as Shakespeare had sprained his wrist writing sonnets. The Doctor claimed that he had warned Shakespeare that Hamlet's line "to take arms against a sea of troubles" was a mixed metaphor, but Shakespeare would not listen. ([[TV]]: ''[[City of Death (TV story)|City of Death]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Stranger, The Writer, His Wife and the Mixed Metaphor (short story)|The Stranger, The Writer, His Wife and the Mixed Metaphor]]'')
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| In [[1609]], according to one account, Shakespeare, acting as an agent of the Crown, encountered the First Doctor, [[Irving Braxiatel]], and [[Galileo Galilei]] in [[Venice]], and was reunited with [[Christopher Marlowe]], whom he thought was dead. The Doctor forcibly made Shakespeare take a [[retcon]]-like drug to erase his memory of the events that he had witnessed. Shakespeare died in [[Stratford-upon-Avon]] in [[April]] [[1616]], having been poisoned on the orders of Sir [[Walter Raleigh]] who had been released from the [[Tower of London]] only five weeks earlier. Braxiatel visited the playwright on his deathbed and restored the [[English]]man's memories of his time in Venice. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Empire of Glass (novel)|The Empire of Glass]]'')
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| === The Golden Emperor ===
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| [[File:GoldE.JPG|thumb|The [[Golden Emperor]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Rogue Planet (comic story)|The Rogue Planet]]'')]]
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| According to one account, the [[Golden Emperor]], the first [[Dalek]] ever created, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Genesis of Evil (comic story)|Genesis of Evil]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]'') was responsible for all of the Shakespeare [[play]]s and [[sonnet]]s. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (comic story)|City of the Daleks]]'')
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| During a [[25th century Dalek invasion|war against the Daleks]] in the early [[25th century]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Invasion of the Daleks (comic story)|Invasion of the Daleks]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Break-through! (short story)|Break-through!]]'') [[Jeff Stone]] was sent to [[Skaro]] on a scout mission. He infiltrated the [[Dalek City]] where he observed, amongst other things, a report from the [[Ministry of Re-Education]] in the [[Hall of Fame]]. The notice ordered the Daleks in the area to commit the fact to [[memory]]. The Daleks also took credit for a number of other [[human]] achievements. Although he was discovered, Jeff ultimately escaped Skaro in his ship and returned to [[Earth]] with a report on what he had seen in the City. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (comic story)|City of the Daleks]]'')
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| === The City of the Saved ===
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| Shakespeare continued being a successful writer in his second life in the [[City of the Saved]]. He wrote the hit [[soap opera]] ''[[The Prosperos]]'', which lasted about fifty years. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')
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| == Alternate timelines ==
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| In [[River Song's World|a timeline]] where [[River Song]] caused time to collapse when she refused to kill the [[Eleventh Doctor]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of River Song (TV story)|The Wedding of River Song]]'') Shakespeare was the head writer of ''[[EastEnders]]''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Just a Minute... (short story)|Just a Minute...]]'')
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| == Works ==
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| William Shakespeare wrote a number of plays, including ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Slow Decay (novel)|Slow Decay]]'') ''[[Hamlet]]'', ([[TV]]: ''[[The Chase (TV story)|The Chase]]'') ''[[Macbeth]]'', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The True Tragedy of Macbeth (short story)|The True Tragedy of Macbeth]]'') ''[[Love's Labour's Lost]]'' and ''[[Love's Labour's Won]]''. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Shakespeare Code (TV story)|The Shakespeare Code]]'')
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| By the [[21st century]], his plays were translated into every major language. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A History of Humankind (novel)|A History of Humankind]]'')
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| == References ==
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| [[The Monk]] believed that his meddling would enable Shakespeare to have ''Hamlet'' premiere on [[television]]. ([[TV]]: "[[Checkmate (episode)|Checkmate]]")
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| When the [[Second Doctor]] landed in [[Australia]] in [[2018]], he was actually trying to get to either William Shakespeare's house in [[Stratford-upon-Avon|Stratford]] or the [[Pan-Galactic Games]] on [[Alpha Centauri (planet)|Alpha Centauri]], as [[Victoria Waterfield]] had wanted to see how her ancestors had lived in the late 16th century. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Apocalypse (novel)|Timewyrm: Apocalypse]]'')
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| After [[1938]], [[Orson Welles]] made several Shakespearean films but the [[Eighth Doctor]] did not believe that they were terribly subtle adaptations. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Time of the Daleks (audio story)|The Time of the Daleks]]'')
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| In [[October]] [[1987]], [[Alek Zenos]] cited Shakespeare among others as an example of [[Britain]]'s rich culture of artists. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[We Are The Daleks (audio story)|We Are The Daleks]]'')
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| During his tenure as lecturer at [[St Luke's University]] in [[Bristol]], the [[Twelfth Doctor]] kept a [[bust]] of William Shakespeare in his office. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pilot (TV story)|The Pilot]]'')
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| In the [[25th century]], the work of [[Lynda La Plante]] was more highly regarded than that of Shakespeare. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Plotters (novel)|The Plotters]]'')
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| The [[Fourth Doctor]] told [[Leela]] that Shakespeare was the greatest poet in the English language "with [his] assistance." ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Foe from the Future (audio story)|The Foe from the Future]]'') He considered Shakespeare a "charming fellow," but a "dreadful [[actor]]." ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of Evil (TV story)|Planet of Evil]]'') Conversely, the [[Fifth Doctor]] later described him as a "hack" to his companions [[Peri Brown]] and [[Erimem]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Kingmaker (audio story)|The Kingmaker]]'') The Sixth Doctor quoted ''[[Hamlet]]'' to {{Ainley}} and {{O'Mara}}. He called him "the Bard" and intended to meet him again. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mark of the Rani]]'') By the time of his tenth incarnation, his opinion of Shakespeare's work had considerably improved as he spoke of it in glowing terms to Martha. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Shakespeare Code (TV story)|The Shakespeare Code]]'')
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| The Fifth Doctor's companion [[Vislor Turlough|Turlough]] studied Shakespeare's works while at [[Brendon Public School]] in [[1983]] but hated them. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Emerald Tiger (audio story)|The Emerald Tiger]]'')
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| While travelling with the [[Sixth Doctor]], [[Peri Brown]] found the original draft of an unknown play by Shakespeare, ''[[Mischief Night]]'', in the [[box-room]] of [[the TARDIS]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Changes (comic story)|Changes]]'')
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| The [[Seventh Doctor]] quoted Shakespeare's line "a rose by any other name" to [[Rhys]], who did not get the reference. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark]]'')
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| Martha Jones told [[Tallulah]] that she had done a bit of Shakespeare when asked if she had ever been on stage before. ([[TV]]: ''[[Daleks in Manhattan (TV story)|Daleks in Manhattan]]'')
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| The [[Tenth Doctor]] told [[Mohandas Gandhi]] that he ranked him with Shakespeare as one of the most amazing human beings who ever lived. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Ghosts of India (novel)|Ghosts of India]]'')
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| == Personality ==
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| Shakespeare was notable for being one of the few [[human]]s who, without receiving any known sort of psychic training, was not fooled by [[the Doctor's psychic paper]]. The Doctor was very impressed by this fact and applauded him, stating it was proof that he was a [[genius]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Shakespeare Code (TV story)|The Shakespeare Code]]'')
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| The [[Ninth Doctor]] told [[Rose Tyler]] that, despite rumours, Shakespeare was very much heterosexual. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[A Groatsworth of Wit (comic story)|A Groatsworth of Wit]]'') In spite of this, he still flirted with the [[Tenth Doctor]], to which the Doctor commented, "57 academics just punched the air." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Shakespeare Code (TV story)|The Shakespeare Code]]'')
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| == Behind the scenes ==
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| * The conflicting revelations in ''[[City of the Daleks (comic story)|City of the Daleks]]'', ''[[All Done with Mirrors (short story)|All Done with Mirrors]]'' and ''[[The Kingmaker (audio story)|The Kingmaker]]'' regarding Shakespeare's true identity have largely been ignored by other sources. ''[[The Shakespeare Code (TV story)|The Shakespeare Code]]'', for example, is set after the events of both ''All Done with Mirrors'' and ''The Kingmaker'' but presents Shakespeare as nothing but the definite article. Additionally, it is not elaborated upon in ''City of the Daleks'' whether there was ever a real Shakespeare or not and the story is somewhat ambiguous as to whether its claim could simply be interpreted as [[Dalek]] [[propaganda]], with just a single panel being devoted to it.
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| * In ''[[The Shakespeare Code (TV story)|The Shakespeare Code]]'', the Tenth Doctor acts as though he's never met Shakespeare before, despite the [[Fourth Doctor]] indicating in ''[[City of Death (TV story)|City of Death]]'' that he knew Shakespeare well enough to help him write ''[[Hamlet]]''. Reportedly a line of dialogue was written for the later episode to explain this, but the line was cut. The [[Ninth Doctor]] also claims in ''[[A Groatsworth of Wit (comic story)|A Groatsworth of Wit]]'' that he's known Shakespeare "for ages."
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| * During ''The Shakespeare Code'' there is a moment when the Doctor notices Shakespeare is flirting with him after just having done so with Martha. The Doctor says, "Come on, we can all have a good flirt later!" [in reference to them needing to stop the Carrionites]. Shakespeare responds, "Is that a promise, Doctor?" The Doctor muses, mostly to himself, "Fifty-seven academics just punched the air." This is a reference to the idea that most of Shakespeare's sonnets, including Sonnet 18, are believed by some Shakespearean academics to be addressed to a man, and there is a sizable body of scholarship on Shakespeare's [[sexuality]].
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| * According to ''[[The Brilliant Book 2012]]'', a [[Tardis:Valid sources|non-narrative]] reference book, in [[1605]], Shakespeare met [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]] at a show of ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' and flirted with Amy until [[James I|King James I]] tried to arrest them for their association with the Doctor.
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| * William Shakespeare is one of three historical figures who are available as playable characters in the online game ''[[TARDIS Tennis (video game)|TARDIS Tennis]]''.
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| * In the story of ''[[Legacy (video game)|Doctor Who: Legacy]]'', the [[Seventh Doctor]], stressing the importance of preventing the [[Sontaran]]s' interference in the [[timeline]], cites William Shakespeare as an example of an important person in [[human]] [[history]] whose existence is endangered.
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| * In 2016, [[BBC One]] aired a televised version of Shakespeare's ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'' adapted by ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[head writer]] and [[executive producer]] [[Russell T Davies]], with music by [[Murray Gold]], starring [[Matt Lucas]], [[Bernard Cribbins]], [[Colin MacFarlane]], [[Richard Wilson (actor)|Richard Wilson]], [[Nonso Anozie]] and [[Eleanor Matsuura]], and had many of [[BBC Wales]]' ''Doctor Who'' crew working on it.
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| [[Category:Human biological fathers]]
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| [[Category:Non-heterosexual individuals]]
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| [[Category:Aliases]]
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